# Do you celebrate Christmas at your house? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 24, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007 "2012-12-24T14:02:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/1 "2012-12-24T14:02:29Z")
Do you celebrate Christmas at your house and how much? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/2 "2012-12-24T14:27:01Z")
I was torn on the difference between celebrating a low-key Christmas and not celebrating Christmas. At the very least, I celebrate Christmas by not going to work! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/3 "2012-12-24T14:34:13Z")
No, I go to my mom’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/4 "2012-12-24T14:38:11Z")
I’m not Christian, and I don’t live in a Christian-majority country. So no. That said, I used to love Christmas in Manhattan. All those pretty lights! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/5 "2012-12-24T15:54:24Z")
Do you mean does our household celebrate Christmas or do we celebrate it here as in this is the gathering place? Yes, this house celebrates Christmas, but no the big family celebration will be at my niece’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/6 "2012-12-24T16:18:56Z")
Here, it’s Yule. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/7 "2012-12-24T16:37:01Z")
I don’t see the difference between “Don’t celebrate” and “Never celebrate”. Either one would be my choice. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/8 "2012-12-24T16:49:00Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I don’t see the difference between “Don’t celebrate” and “Never celebrate”. Either one would be my choice. There are two different questions in the poll. The first five refer to how often you celebrate (bottom answer being “never”), and the second five refer to the size of the celebrations (bottom answer being “don’t”). I found it a little confusing myself. I’m a “never” and “don’t” since I am Jewish and grew up in a home where Christmas was never observed in any way. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/9 "2012-12-24T17:11:33Z")
Yup, every year. Well, I celebrate Yule, the rest of the family celebrates Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/10 "2012-12-24T17:28:23Z")
Since I happen to live in a different town from everybody else, we meet at either Middlebro’s house or at Mom’s. In turn, Middlebro and family will be at their house, at Mom’s, or at The Other Grandmother’s. That’s for “the twelve days”, if you mean Christmas day itself, this year it’s at Mom’s. ---
**Author:** ![KermitTheFrig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@KermitTheFrig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KermitTheFrig)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/11 "2012-12-24T18:02:06Z")
We’ve all celebrated Christmas our entire lives although we have a Unitarian Universalist, a secular humanist and an undecided youth in this house. We celebrate here at home by having a tree, hanging stockings and opening Christmas presents. We also sometimes have the extended family here, though that’s not always on Christmas Day itself. (Yesterday afternoon, the 23rd, we had a gathering for my side of the family at a sibling’s home. On Christmas Day will will go to my in-laws for Christmas dinner.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/12 "2012-12-24T18:19:51Z")
Usually we celebrate in our home but occasionally go to a relative’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/13 "2012-12-24T19:47:08Z")
We do some years, as the kids are sometimes at their other parents. I am resolving now, however, to never do Christmas again. Like many things, the payoff is dwarfed by the _pain in the ass_ of the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/14 "2012-12-24T21:57:20Z")
Yes, every year. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/15 "2012-12-24T21:58:21Z")
I celebrate my sister’s birthday, which happens to be December 25th. People think it’s weird when I wish them “Happy [D/a’s sister]'s birthday.” Yet they continue to with me a Merry Christmas. I’ll never understand it. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/16 "2012-12-24T22:17:30Z")
Every year, but it’s fairly moderate, some might say low key. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/17 "2012-12-24T22:35:01Z")
I celebrate Christmas every year one way or the other…but it’s been about ten years since it was at my house. I have no family in the US and no kids. For the past four years, a single, middle-aged family-less friend and I have developed a little tradition of going to see a blockbuster movie, then going out for a swanky dinner. Two years ago I moved into a fairly tight-knit neighborhood and have developed good friendships with a few people around here - all, like me, single, middle-aged people who for one reason or another don’t do The Big Family Christmas. We’re getting together for breakfast tomorrow morning. It does feel a little sad not to be able to do the traditional family Christmas any more but them’s the breaks! ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/18 "2012-12-24T23:22:53Z")
Surely the OP didn’t mean literally at your house, but in the sense of “in your family.” We celebrate every year, and it is low key, at least in terms of presents. I never spend more than $500 or so, total. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/19 "2012-12-24T23:32:37Z")
I celebrate the atheist version. We’ve changed Christams in our family. We have a policy of no gifts for adults, just for the kids. Makes Christmas much more enjoyable. Just food, family, and libations ! ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007/20 "2012-12-24T23:38:16Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > Surely the OP didn’t mean literally at your house, but in the sense of “in your family.” We celebrate every year, and it is low key, at least in terms of presents. I never spend more than $500 or so, total. Well…the thread title is “Do you celebrate Christmas at your house?” I took it literally, because I am not a mindreader. Had the OP been “Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, however you define family” I would have answered differently. Because “at your house” and “in/with your family” mean different things to me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-celebrate-christmas-at-your-house/645007.md?page=2)